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Re: Root XFS partition

To: Jason Walker <unseen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Root XFS partition
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:51:41 -0600
Cc: SGI XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Jason Walker wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
>         I have XFS for a short time now, and just got around to making back 
> ups of all my data.  I finally have a 10gb filesystem (over several 
> partitions) for XFS, made all the filesystems, and went to boot....and it 
> wouldn't mount the XFS / partition. left me with the generic:
>
>         Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:45
>
>         I read on the FAQ that LILO now works with XFS (or vice-versa :) and 
> I searched the mailing lsit archives and only found old things about trying 
> to get  root XFS to mount, then later, issues with it being buggy...but I 
> didn't see anything about how to get XFS / to work (what does  "Could be 
> easier", from the FAQ,  mean, anyways? :)
>         Can anyone shed some light on this?  I would *love* to get this 
> working, thanks for your time.
>
>         RegEx/Jason Walker

XFS wasn't available at boot time.
You either need to build a kernel with XFS compiled in or
make an inital ramdisk with the xfs xfs_support and pagebuf modules included
A modified version of mkinitrd can be found in cmd/xfs/misc

You will also need to add the following to the append line in your lilo.conf 
file.

ramdisk_size=2500

--
Russell Cattelan
cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx




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